Ballot Tickets

(1) After registering all candidate lists, each regional authority shall arrange the printing of ballot tickets. Each political party, movement and coalition shall have its own ballot tickets.

(2) Each ballot ticket must feature the name of the election region in which it is to be used, the number drawn in compliance with Article 8, Section 2, Subsection c), full name of the political party, movement or coalition concerned, each candidate’s first name(s) and surname, citizenship, age, occupation, permanent address, place in the candidate list specified by Arabic numeral and membership in a political party or movement or the fact that he/she is without party affiliation. If the candidate stands for a coalition, it is necessary to state the political party or movement by which he/she has been nominated and all political parties and movements forming such coalition. The authorised representatives of all political parties, movements and coalitions may check whether the details featured in ballot tickets are correct before their printing.

(3) All ballot papers must be printed in the same font of the same size on paper of the same colour, quality and dimensions. All ballot papers must be stamped with the official stamp of the relevant regional authority.

(4) Each regional authority shall forward ballot papers through designated local authorities to mayors who will be in charge of distributing them among the voters no later than 3 days before the date of the election and sending them to all district election commissions on the day of the elections. The distribution of ballot papers in municipalities having no mayor shall be organised by deputy mayor. The distribution of ballot papers in municipalities having no mayor and no deputy mayor shall be organised by the executive director of the relevant regional authority (the executive director of the Metropolitan Authority of the City of Prague) (hereinafter only the “executive director of regional authority”).

(5) Each regional authority shall send the ballot tickets to be used in special election districts to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall distribute them to all embassies specified in its edict no later than 48 hours before the beginning of the elections. To all other embassies the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall send the ballot tickets through transmission means no later than 3 days before the date of the elections. The head of each such embassy shall organise their printing or duplication in sufficient volumes no later than 24 hours before the beginning of the elections. Every voter voting in a special election district shall receive his/her ballot tickets at a polling station.

(6) Ballot papers featuring obvious printing errors shall not be reprinted; each regional authority shall make sure that information on such errors are made available at every polling station located within its territory, together with their correct version. Each regional authority shall make sure that the aforementioned information on errors is published at all polling stations located outside the territory of the Czech Republic through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.